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Converting Strings to Uppercase and Lowercase

Started by mrSLIMEguy, 18 September 2012 - 06:34 AM

mrSLIMEguy #1

44 posts

Location Melbourne

Posted 18 September 2012 - 08:34 AM

Does anyone know how I can convert a string to uppercase or lowercase?
I can use this in a menu with

Are you sure that you want to …. Y/N
>

so that it doen't have to be a capital Y or N, so it wont matter.

Luanub #2

1111 posts

Location Portland OR

Posted 18 September 2012 - 08:37 AM

Yes use the string API.

string.upper() to conver to upper case

string.lower() for lower case


print("Enter your name")
local input = read()
string.lower(input)
print(input)

lfairy #3

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5 posts

Location Christchurch, New Zealand

Posted 20 September 2012 - 07:34 AM

Believe it or not, Lua has a manual:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5

The string functions can be found if you scroll down a bit:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4